The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 30

But no sooner had they returned to their beds than the same thing happened again, and so on till the morning.

Who acts: chains, same thing · What happens: have, return, happen

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chains, same thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 returned	nsubj
6	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 beds	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 beds	nmod:poss
9	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 returned	obl
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 happened	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 happened	nsubj
14	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 returned	advcl
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 happened	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 on	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 on	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 on	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 morning	case
20	till	till	ADP	_	22 morning	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 morning	det
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		morning	soon property	tree rules
2	return	past	chains = chain		to chains's beds result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result
3	happen	past	the same thing	again		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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